If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
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If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
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If his master have given him a wife and she have borne him sons or daughters, _the wife and her children shall be her master's_, and he shall go out by himself.' "I have not finished my reading," said I; "but what do you say to that, Mr.North ?" "Read on," said he.
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And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children, I will not go out free: "'6.

Then his master shall bring him unto the judges, he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door-post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.' "God decreed, therefore, that the marriage of a slave in bondage, in those days, was dissoluble, as no other marriage was.